Announced today at the annual Las Vegas Star Trek convention is the news that the second year of Star Trek: Discovery is due to arrive on home media in just a few months: the Blu-ray and DVD release of Season 2 is beaming down on November 12.
Including audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes features, deleted scenes, and a gag reel, the four-disc Blu-ray set will include all 14 episodes from Season 2, and (as of this writing) two of the four filmed “Short Treks,” the Tilly-centric “Runaway” and the Saru-centric “The Brightest Star.”
(We’re already investigating the status of “Calypso” and “The Escape Artist, and will report back once we know more.)
The Blu-ray set has been announced to include all of these behind-the-scenes features:
• ENTER THE ENTERPRISE – Captain Pike shepherds U.S.S. Discovery through Season Two, but must return to his original command on the U.S.S. Enterprise. The production designer, builders, actors and producers discuss the daunting task of reviving the iconic ship’s bridge.
• PUTTING IT TOGETHER – Follow the real life Discovery crew through preparation, shooting and posting the amazing Season Two finale. A true in-depth look at the many talents that come together to bring Discovery to life.
• THE RED ANGEL – A major plot point of the season is the Red Angel. Go behind-the scenes with producers, directors and Sonequa Martin-Green, along with the craftspeople that created it and made it come to life.
• DESIGNING DISCOVERY: SEASON TWO – On a show where no location exists in our world, the production and lighting design teams must create every space. Look at the locations and spaces created for Season Two.
• PROP ME UP: SEASON TWO – Propmaster Mario Moreira takes fans through the world of Discovery props.
• DRESS FOR SUCCESS: SEASON TWO – Each species has its own fashion style dictated by both culture and physical attributes. Gersha Phillips and her team discuss how costumes inform a character and how they create a spectacular array of clothing, uniforms and armor for every kind of species.
• CREATURE COMFORTS: SEASON TWO – Producers, craftsmen and actors discuss the design process, the implementation and the performance required to bring characters to life. Fans can also catch a one-on-one discussion with makeup artist James McKinnon and L’Rell actress, Mary Chieffo.
• CREATING SPACE – There are some shots that simply can’t be done practically when you are set in space. The VFX team, headed by Jason Zimmerman, pushes the envelope every week to create amazing computer graphics to give fans a realistic feel of space.
• STAR TREK DISCOVERY: THE VOYAGE OF SEASON TWO – A look at the adventures and plot twists encountered in Season 2 by the crew of the Discovery.
• Cast and crew audio commentaries on four episodes
• Deleted scenes and Gag Reel
The set will also include four audio commentary tracks (which include contributions from Captain Pike actor Anson Mount as well as episodic director Jonathan Frakes).
In addition to the on-disc details, we’ve also learned when most international regions will see the Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 set will beam down overseas.
• United Kingdom – November 18, 2019
• Italy – November 19, 2019
• Germany – November 21, 2019
• Spain – November 22, 2019
• Nordics – November 25, 2019
• Belgium, The Netherlands & Luxembourg – November 27, 2019
• Denmark – November 28, 2019
• France – December 4, 2019
• Japan and Australia – Date to be announced
We’ll be sure to bring you preorder links for the Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 sets as soon as they go live — and if there’s news of a Season 2 Steelbook set announced (to match the special Season 1 release) we’ll keep you posted on that too.
While the status of the 1970’s Star Trek Animated Series’ status in Trek canon is murky at best — most agree that the events of that series are not to be taken as a literal part of in-universe history, save for perhaps the D.C. Fontana-penned “Yesteryear” — the franchise is returning to that format for next year’s Star Trek: Lower Decks, and this week the leader of that show Mike McMahan clarified how his show will fit into the franchise.
McMahan, who started his path into Star Trek with the parody Twitter account TNG Season 8 a few years ago — which lead to a book deal on the subject, resulting in Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season — is the showrunner and creator of Lower Decks, which we learned at San Diego Comic Con will be set in the year 2380, just after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.
Mike McMahan at San Diego Comic Con 2019. (Photo: CBS)
Speaking with ComicBook.com this week, McMahan shared how he decided when the series should take place, picking a spot in the Trek timeline that is both familiar but not something that would step on the events of previously-released on-screen adventures, saying he’s looking to bring viewers “a mix of the familiar and the new.”
I wanted to choose a year that was kind of untouched, was kind of blank slate, that didn’t touch on anything that they might be doing for whenever Picard takes place but also doesn’t get in the middle of anything that was like, ‘Oh, this was happening during the Dominion War.’ Or, you know, ‘This would be happening during [Star Trek: First Contact].’
For me, it was like what was a little spot where our characters on a less important ship could be having adventures and doing their thing that wouldn’t break anybody else’s favorite show. Everybody else, there’s so many fans. There are people who are huge fans of ‘Deep Space Nine.’ I love ‘Voyager’ and ‘Enterprise’ and everything that came around there, those shows are all amazing.
I didn’t want anybody to feel like I was trying to subvert their favorite show by what we were doing. Also, because [the TNG timeframe] was my favorite era, I was like, ‘I’m going to slip in at the very end and get to do just one more little piece of that era. Just one more little growing of the world, just in this different format.’
The characters of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS (L-R): Ensign Tendi, Ensign Rutherford, Ensign Mariner, Ensign Boimler, Lt. Shaxs, Captain Freeman, Commander Ransom, and Dr. T’Ana.
As for the dreaded “Will it be canon?” question — meaning, will these events be “real” Star Trek history like the live-action shows, or not? — McMahan was clear that he wouldn’t be doing this project if it wasn’t going to “count” in the overall story of the Star Trek universe.
It’s important to me that canon and ‘Star Trek’ really go hand-in-hand. It’s important, to me. It’s not worth making a ‘Star Trek’ show unless you are at least trying to make sure that it fits into the canon because the canon is part of why I and everybody else loves ‘Star Trek.’
It feels like, that is what is kind of the original shared world of all these different shows. Now you’re seeing it in the Marvel movies and the DC movies and all of that, but in the very beginning you had [TOS] and then it became TNG and all the other series reference each other, and the movies reference each other. To me, that was the original fandom and if you’re not trying to fit into that stuff and not being careful, it’s kind of not worth doing. That’s part of the joy of doing it. It’s not a constraint.
So the trick with ‘Lower Decks’ is that our characters are, our stories and our characters are definitely in canon. Ours, they’re just a little bit more aware and self-referential. Our guys might talk about the characters from the other shows that they’ve heard about because they are as big a fan of ‘Star Trek’ as I and my writers are. They don’t get to do as important stuff. It’s almost like our characters are aware that they’re in canon, and some of them are geeking out over it.
McMahan wouldn’t say if we’ll get to revisit any of the well-known Star Trek locations established in the previous television shows or films — or if any of the franchise’s prior stars will be back to voice their characters in the animated show — but as we get closer to 2020, we’re sure to learn a lot more about the series.
Sunday, in fact, will be the first big Star Trek: Lower Decks panel at the Las Vegas Trek convention, where McMahan and the entire Lower Decks writing team will be on stage to discuss the upcoming show, where we expect to learn a lot more — and maybe even see some new artwork from the upcoming show.
In the meantime, keep it locked here at TrekCore for all the latest news on Star Trek: Lower Decks as it decloaks!
Following in the footsteps of his co-stars Jason Isaacs, Rekha Sharma, and Mary Wiseman, Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp will be bringing his on-screen counterpart Paul Stamets to the world of Star Trek Online later this year.
Even though the Discovery has warped off to the far future — thanks to the events of Season 2’s finale — Lt. Commander Stamets will arrive to Star Trek Online in holographic form, where Rapp will voice his character in the newest expansion of the game: STAR TREK ONLINE – AWAKENING, arriving first for PC players on September 10.
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Star Trek Online developers Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced the news earlier this week, and shared this description about the upcoming Awakening storyline.
Following the epic conclusion to the multi-part saga, Age of Discovery, the free-to-play Star Trek MMORPG will return to its original timeline in the 25th century. When Awakening releases this fall, players will warp to the year 2410, where they will embark on a mission to recover stolen Mycelial technology from J’Ula and the Klingons, with the help of Lt. Commander Paul Stamets (voiced by Anthony Rapp from ‘Star Trek: Discovery’) in holographic form.
Captains can also access Awakening to participate in a series of exciting patrols to repair time rifts, a brand new Task Force Operation and a special Mycelial Event which rewards players with a new T6 Elachi ship for completing missions.
During Age of Discovery, players witnessed J’Ula and her Klingon forces stealing Mycelial technology, which pulled them forward to the year 2410. Captains must now follow this ruthless Klingon matriarch back to the 25th century to ensure she doesn’t corrupt the entire Mycelial Network in pursuit of her own dangerous agenda. Unfortunately, the insurmountable threat J’Ula poses to the universe also draws out the Elachi, who fear her actions will lead to the destruction of their home planet – and they will stop at nothing to protect it.
In order to complete their mission, Captains must rely on the help of an astromycologist expert, a sentient hologram of the legendary Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets from the U.S.S. Discovery (voiced by Anthony Rapp), to help them track down J’Ula and repair the tears she’s caused in the fabric of space.
These events transpire over the course of a new episode debuting with Awakening this fall. The update also introduces a series of new patrols, which will send Captains on a mission with Stamets and Star Trek Online luminaries like Lukari Captain Kuumaarke to reverse the damage the Klingons have caused to the Mycelial Network. With them come a revamped Patrols System, which has been updated to allow better access to the game’s patrols and yield new rewards.
Finally, players will also be able to participate in a new 5-player Task Force Operation and a special Mycelial Event, which allows them to earn a new T6 Elachi ship by completing the new episode, patrols and TFO. Additional details will be released when Awakening launches on PC September 10.
Along with the announcement of Rapp’s participation, the studios also released a new launch trailer for the Awakening event.
Anthony Rapp will be appearing on stage at the Las Vegas Star Trek convention this weekend where he’ll join the Star Trek Online development team to talk about his participation in the new storyline.
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Today at the Las Vegas Star Trek convention, the team at the forefront of Trek publishing took the stage to lay out some of the upcoming plans for tie-in print offerings coming up for Star Trek: Picard, the legacy Trek shows, and even the Kelvin Timeline!
Gallery Books senior editor Ed Schlessinger was joined on stage by authors John Jackson Miller, Robb Pearlman, and IDW Publishing’s Chase Marotz and Mike Johnson to talk about a number of things that are set to hint print over the next year, from tie-ins we’ve known about for a while to some new announcements.
Robb Pearlman, Ed Schlesinger, John Jackson Miller, Chase Marotz, and Mike Johnson.
First up is the launch of Star Trek: Picard tie-in publishing, starting with STAR TREK: PICARD — COUNTDOWN, a new comic miniseries from IDW that will launch in November 2019 ahead of the debut of the upcoming series. This three-issue tale, written by Johnson and Picard supervising producer Kirsten Beyer, will center around “a mission that would go on to change the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard,” set in the years ahead of the new television show.
In February 2020, returning Trek author Una McCormack’s THE LAST BEST HOPE will be the first Star Trek: Picard tie-in novel, which will “lead directly into the show and continue to introduce fans to brand new characters featured in the series.”
No cover artwork for either of these Star Trek: Picard releases has been unveiled yet, but as soon as that becomes public we’ll certainly bring you those updates — but in the meantime, you can preorder The Last Best Hope at Amazon ahead of the February release.
Old 2010-era cover artwork for the upcoming Kelvin Timeline novels.
One of the biggest surprises out of the Trek publishing panel was the announcement that two of the long-thought-dead Kelvin Timeline novels — first announced in 2010 (and later cancelled) — are coming back from the black hole they disappeared into for the 2020 publication schedule.
Alan Dean Foster’s novel The Order of Peace (originally titled Refugees) and David Mack’s story More Beautiful Than Death are slated for resurrection next year, scheduled for an April and August release.
David Mack followed up on this announcement on Facebook:
Ten years ago, I wrote a Star Trek “Kelvinverse” novel set after the 2009 feature film, showcasing the new characters and situations of that movie. For behind-the-scenes reasons unrelated to my work, my book and three others in that setting were abruptly cancelled.
It was announced today at Star Trek Las Vegas that my novel, MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN DEATH, will be published next year, in August 2020, as a trade paperback.
I’m very excited by this news, because I have always been pleased by how that book turned out. I felt that it was a faithful continuation of those characters’ stories, one that could not be possible in the original series incarnation of Trek. Next year, fans of the films and the books will get to decide for themselves whether I succeeded, and if the book was worth the wait. 🙂
These two books mark the very first official Kelvin Timeline-based Star Trek tie-in novels, and may mark the start of a Kelvin line of ongoing publications. New cover artwork for both stories is expected to be released before these books hit stores next year.
The next new reveal was official cover art for David Mack’s upcoming Star Trek: The Next Generation novel COLLATERAL DAMAGE, announced some time ago but not seen until today’s panel.
Scheduled for release in October 2019, Collateral Damage(which can be preordered at Amazon now)will serve as “the culmination of 16 years of storytelling,” said Schlesinger, going all the way back to the early 2000’s A Time To… novel series; the editor also shared how the Collateral Damage novel will be an “intense legal drama” where Captain Picard will finally have to face the consequences of his involvement in recent Federation events.
Additionally, the panel also announced the release of two more Star Trek: The Original Series novels: March 2020 will bring us Christopher L. Bennett’sThe Higher Frontier, and we’ll get another classic Trek tale from Dayton Ward in June with Agents of Influence.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture — and the 40th anniversary of Star Trek tie-in publishing — a re-release of Gene Roddenberry’s novelization of the first Trek film will be arriving in October, and for the first time an audiobook edition of that book will be available as well.
We also got confirmation today that Star Trek: Voyager storyteller Kirsten Beyer — who has been hard at work on Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard — will finally have her long-awaited novel To Lose the Earth arrive in 2020.
Finally, while there were no announcements or specifics, Schlesinger responded to an audience question about potential young-adult tie-in books for Star Trek: Lower Decks and the upcoming Nickelodeon Star Trek animated series by saying that there are “active discussions” on that subject.
The last subject to be discussed was the state of the long-generated Star Trek novel continuity, as 24th Century Trek is about to return to the screen in Star Trek: Picard — Schlesinger commented that “We are taking [the status of the books] very seriously, and we are not looking to do anything to jeopardize our relationship with the fan base… stay tuned.”
Panelist John Jackson Miller commented that there are “a lot more opportunities to integrate things [between books and television] now… you guys want it to work, and WE want it to work. The stories that matter to you will still matter in some form [even if it may not be neat and tidy]…. keep in mind Star Trek is a multiverse.”
In addition, Trek novelist Dayton Ward — who was not in attendance at this panel — weighed in on Facebook with his take on that issue:
My various consulting duties for CBS involve working with certain licensing partners to help develop tie-in opportunities, primarily as they pertain to the new shows but also the older series as appropriate.
One of those tasks – indeed, one of the very first things I was asked to help tackle when they hired me – was to work with S&S *and* CBS and figure out a path forward for the novels as they pertain to the new Picard series.
From the minute this came up, I’ve approached it as one thing and one thing only: the most epic fucking ‘Star Trek’ storytelling challenge ever.
There have already been several discussions on this topic, going back more than a year – even before I started developing the storyline for what became my TNG novel AVAILABLE LIGHT – about how we might proceed. A lot of the earlier conversations didn’t have the benefit of knowing just what the new show was going to do, so we ended up with a lot of talk about pretty much anything you can think of with respect to these books.
Well, it’s a year later, and we know a whole lot more than we did then.
As our editor, Ed Schlesinger, and John intimated, it’s a complicated process with ongoing conversations (David Mack and I had a pretty drawn-out talk about this very thing at the recent Shore Leave con, and that was basically “part 1”), and everyone involved is taking it very seriously because we all want to do it right.
So, as has been said in somewhat joking fashion before now but which I’ll re-iterate with absolutely no snark: We’re working on it. Honest.
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In advance of next year’s Star Trek: Picard premiere, CBS and Paramount’s home entertainment divisions are rolling out a new Star Trek: The Next Generation Blu-ray set focused on Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s time aboard his two Enterprise starships.
The Star Trek Picard Movie & TV Collection arrives this October in the US — and will follow later with international releases — combining the ‘feature-length’ edits of “The Best of Both Worlds” and “Chain of Command” and the four Next Generation feature films into a six-disc Blu-ray set.
If you missed it back in 2013, five of TNG’s season-ending cliffhangers were issued as separate, standalone releases which included edits of each two-episode pairing into two-hour presentations — this set includes the “Best of Both Worlds” and “Chain of Command” edits as previously released.
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While there is no new on-disc content set to be included in this repackaged release, the companies have partnered with IDW Publishing to pair this set with an exclusive 16-page Star Trek: The Next Generation comic book — “Sky’s The Limit” — which will be a new story not previously released by the comic publisher.
This Blu-ray set isn’t yet available for preorder, but will arrive in the US on October 15, and follow overseas in the UK on October 21, Australia on October 23, and in Germany on November 7.
To celebrate this year’s 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, special-event theatrical distribution company Fathom Events is bringing the inaugural Trek film back to cinemas for two nights only this September.
Returning to theaters on September 15 and 18 across the United States, Fathom Events has announced that the 1979 theatrical edition of The Motion Picture will be back on screen for fans to revisit for this year’s big anniversary. Along with the film, the special presentation will include a screening of “The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture,” a special feature included on the Blu-ray edition of the movie.
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture on the big screen with the original 1979 theatrical cut, featuring Jerry Goldsmith’s rousing overture.
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. The legendary cast of the original Star Trek television series, including Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan, mobilize at warp speed to stop the alien intruder from its relentless flight toward Earth.
This is not going to be the 2001 Directors’ Edition of the film, recently announced as being considered for a 4K remastering — from comments made by the team involved in those negotiations with Paramount, the earliest a release of that (still-unofficial) remaster of The Motion Picture could come to market would be sometime in 2020.
Tickets for the Motion Picture screening events are available for purchase directly from hosting theaters, and will become available through Fathom Events’ website on August 2.
We finally got our first good look at Star Trek: Picard at San Diego Comic Con in that trailer that still as Trek fans buzzing – and now there’s some more detail about the team that’s bringing the upcoming series to life.
Spreading out from his work on Star Trek: Discovery, Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Russo will be bringing his musical talents to the show as he takes on the job of scoring Picard, news that arrived courtesy of Film Music Reporter last week.
While CBS hasn’t officially made an announcement of their own, the composer himself took to Twitter to confirm the news.
Though the California-based Russo is spreading his wings to a second Trek series, some other production professionals familiar to fans from Discovery – who are needed at the Toronto-based stages – have newly-identified counterparts working on Picard, thanks to first-episode director Hanelle Culpepper.
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Jeff Lombardi is serving as Picard’s property master (Discovery counterpart: Mario Moreira), the lead designer for any physical props for the series, including the Starfleet Command visitor badge worn by Patrick Stewart in the trailer – and given away as replicas to fans at Comic Con.
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Christine Bieselin Clark takes the lead as Picard’s costume designer (Discovery counterpart: Gersha Phillips), responsible for not only the look of Picard, Seven, and the cast’s civilian styles, but also the briefly-seen new Starfleet uniforms and Romulan garb sported by the Vulcanoid refugees.
Production designer Todd Cherniawsky, who began his time on Trek during the first year of Discovery before ceding that show over to Tamera Deverall, is master of all things set design for Star Trek: Picard.
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The just-concluded San Diego Comic Con Star Trek Universe panel may be over, but there’s still much more to talk about — and thanks to the cast, we now know a bit more about the new characters we’ll be meeting in Star Trek: Picard.
Along with Patrick Stewart and the show’s production leadership, fans were introduced to Star Trek newcomers Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway and Evan Evagora in San Diego, where we got to learn about the role each will portray when the new show arrives on 2020.
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard. (CBS)
Patrick Stewart, of course, returns as Jean-Luc Picard, a retired Starfleet admiral who is drawn back into space life after an encounter with an unexpected visitor.
Retirement is not what he was looking for, not what he wanted. It was an impulsive act that put him in this situation and he has regretted it and lived with a certain amount of guilt about it for many years…. and that’s where we pick up the show.
Asked about the new ragtag crew that Picard finds himself leading in the new series, Stewart remarked that — without giving any story details away — that he’ll be asked that question by Jonathan Frakes, when Picard encounters Riker in an upcoming episode.
“On Monday, we’re shooting a scene in which Riker, who is in the series, he says to me, “Your new crew, what are they like?” and I do actually describe them as ‘motley.'”
Stewart and Isa Briones. (CBS)
Isa Briones is Dahj, a young woman who seeks out the retired Picard for answers after facing a “big event” in her life.
Evan Evagora, Alison Pill, and Stewart. (CBS)
Evan Evagora is Elnor, a young Romulan who is an “expert and hand to hand combat” and is “fiercely loyal to Jean-Luc Picard” (according Evagora in a post-panel interview) — and Alison Pill is Dr. Agnes Jurati is a researcher, and someone “who’s confused with her place in the world,” said Pill on stage.
Stewart, Evagora, Santiago Cabrera, and Michelle Hurd. (CBS)
Santiago Cabrera (center) is Cristobal “Chris” Rios, a former Starfleet officer and pilot who at first is reluctant to help Picard — and Michelle Hurd (right) is Raffi Musiker, a character who knows Picard from some time in their shared past.
Harry Treadaway as Narek. (CBS)
We don’t know much about Harry Treadaway’s character Narek yet, aside from the fact that he’s a Romulan.
Frequent television guest star Peyton List. (CBS)
We also spotted in the new series trailer guest star Peyton Listas a Romulan who seems to be working with Narek…
Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine. (CBS)
…and of course, the surprising return of Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine rounds out the new production photos released by CBS this afternoon.
UPDATE: CBS also released this set of quick clips with the Picard crew, where they briefly introduce their characters.
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In a surprise announcement at San Diego Comic Con today, we learned that Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner and Star Trek: Voyager actor Jeri Ryan will be making appearances in the next iteration of the Star Trek franchise, the Patrick Stewart-led Star Trek: Picard which is currently in production and just dropped a big trailer.
Spiner, who played the android Lt. Commander Data for seven years on television — as well as in the four Next Generation feature films, and in a voice cameo during the Enterprise series finale — marks the first of Stewart’s former Trek castmates to join him in the next chapter of the franchise, as Star Trek: Picard returns to the former Enterprise captain some two decades after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.
While the actor’s android alter ego was notably killed during the climactic ending of Nemesis — as Spiner felt he could no longer portray the ageless artificial life form after inhabiting the role for nearly 15 years — he did leave behind another member of the Soong-type android ‘family,’ a less-developed model known as B-4 (also played by Spiner).
Spiner as android B-4, with Stewart, during the final moments of “Star Trek: Nemesis.” (Paramount)
By the end of the film, though Data has been destroyed, it is hinted that his archived memories live on in B-4, as the prototype android begins to mutter the words to the showtune Data performed at the Riker-Troi wedding from the beginning of the movie.
Spiner returns as Data (?) with a slight hint of ‘First Contact’-era uniform shoulders.
As for Jeri Ryan, the story of liberated Borg drone Seven of Nine seemed to conclude with Voyager‘s 2001 series finale, “Endgame,” arriving home to Earth with her shipmates to a world she didn’t remember — but after “four glasses of champagne,” she joked after a surprise arrival to the Comic Con stage, she was convinced to join the series and return to the role after nearly twenty years away.
Jerri Ryan: Over a year ago, they brought it up to her after 4 glasses of champagne. She never thought it would happen. It’s pretty surreal. pic.twitter.com/YPVX37BCG1
Seven of Nine seems to have loosened up quite a bit since her return from the Delta Quadrant nearly two decades ago, given her demeanor with Picard in the new teaser trailer, and Ryan certainly seems to be falling right back into the part with delight:
Jeri Ryan returns as Seven of Nine.
Ryan isn’t the only former Borg coming back to Star Trek, however: joining her will be Jonathan Del Arco, the two-time Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star who portrayed Hugh, a young drone who recovered his individuality, in “I, Borg” and the two-part “Descent” episode in the later seasons of the show.
Del Arco said on stage that he wasn’t sure about getting back into the heavy Borg makeup again, but had longtime friend and “Borg mama” Jeri Ryan along for support which helped his concerns.
Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh.
Finally, while they did not appear in San Diego, series showrunner Michael Chabon revealed that both Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis will return as Riker and Troi — both married off and headed for the USS Titan after the adventures in Star Trek: Nemesis — later in the season.
Lastly, we learned today that while originally planned for a “late 2019” arrival, the premiere of Star Trek: Picard is now set for a 2020 debut — but so far it seems like it’ll be worth the wait.
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Debuting just moments ago at San Diego Comic Con’s Enter the Star Trek Universe panel, the first full trailer for Star Trek: Picard is here — returning Patrick Stewart to the 24th century for the first time since 2002.
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We’ll have more to dissect about this trailer soon enough — and we’ll continue to update this post with globally-available versions of the video as they become available — but in the meantime, give us your thoughts in the comments below!
Star Trek: Picard is set to debut on CBS All Access later this year for viewers in the United States, Space Channel in Canada, and on Amazon Prime Video in all other global regions.
